Over the last few months since I’ve been on the Virtual Earth team I become friends with Ed Katibah . Ed works on the SQL Spatial team and is one of those guys who lives and breathes what he loves and what he loves is Spatial Databases. He also loves talking about them and I find that when I’m hanging...

I’m up in Vancouver, BC this week for the GITA GeoWeb conference . I will be presenting with Ed Katibah on all things Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial. A Complete Guide to Geo-Spatial Technology at Microsoft\(SOLD OUT) Ed Katibah, Principal Program Manager - SQL Server Spatial, Mark Brown, Senior Product...

It’s been a good week for awesome content again here in Virtual Earth land. Marc Schweigert I swear is some kind of Transformer Robot because he cranks out killer demos and samples like a machine is at it again. Here’s a picture of Marc there on the left. This time he’s got two screen casts for us. The...

Today’s been a tough one for me. To begin I was having issues with my normal laptop, a severely underpowered Sony VAIO that I’ve had for about three years. It’s never liked Vista and to be sure Vista has hated it right back. Still it is small, weighing less that four pounds and most often runs Office...

Isaac Kunen over on the SQL Spatial Team blogs about their upcoming Builder API feature in SQL Spatial. If you're a developer interested in building Virtual Earth applications you'll want to take a close look at our upcoming release of SQL Server with its geometry and geography data types. Very cool...

I'm really lucky in that there are really a ton of people who work on the Virtual Earth team who are prodigious producers of great content. Johannes Kebeck is one of those people. Johannes works over in Europe on Virtual Earth and over the last couple of months he has been cranking out blogs posts on...